ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Q-Chem, Gasal Qatar ready for in deal for RLOC feisty encounter nitrogen supply against Brazil Business | 17 Sport | 28 Wednesday 3 September 2014 • 8 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6177 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Plan to enrol women into military service Joining not mandatory: Official DOHA: Young Qatari women to upgrade our defence systems are also to be roped in for and our armed forces,” he said. national service, but joining it “We want to modernise our wouldn’t be made compulsory armed forces and defence sys- for them like it is for their male tems. The vision of the Emir, counterparts. H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Currently, a special programme Al Thani, is quite clear in this is being prepared to enrol Qatari regard,” said Al Attiyah. women cadets for the military Talking of the national serv- service, said the Minister of State ice, he said it is the duty of the for Defence Affairs. Qatari youth to be part of it “It wouldn’t, however, be com- for the defence of their beloved pulsory for women to join the country. national service like it is for men,” “We are happy the way the said H E Major-General Hamad national service programme This picture taken from the top of Al Mana Tower late last evening shows traffic jam at Al Mana intersection, officially known as Najma intersection. bin Ali Al Attiyah. is progressing.” The first SALIM MATRAMKOT Women cadets joining the batch was very successful and national service will not be response to the second batch required to stay in camps over- has been very good, said the night like the men are, said minister of state. City braces for more traffic woes Al Attiyah, Al Sharq reported This is an experimental yesterday. stage and if the need be, the Their training will be in the law of national service could be DOHA: Traffic snarls are last- all schools, ministries, and gov- not entirely empty.” “I work from people should cooperate with the morning hours after which they amended, said Al Attiyah. ing for hours on Doha roads ernment and private offices open home early in the morning,” said the authorities instead of complaining could go home. And they will be Staff Brigadier Mohamed as people have returned from at almost the same time in the expert. “My employers are flexible.” about busy and chaotic roads. trained by women, he added. Musfir Al Ayadi, head of the vacation overseas, with schools morning so people rush,” said a He said that the free shuttle On its part, the government Al Attiyah was inaugurating National Service Centre, said in reopening on Sunday. traffic expert who didn’t want his bus services introduced by the should provide buses to expatriate the second batch of national his address at the inauguration Peak-hour traffic jams are par- name in print. government in the West Bay area and private schools on nominal service at Al Shamal Camp ceremony that the response to the ticularly causing chaos on roads Flexibility in work and school are a welcome initiative. Such charges to ferry children. yesterday. second batch was so encouraging with experts warning the situa- timings is required considering services should be introduced to The state can very well do it Talking of the arms deals Qatar that some 3,000 Qatari youth had tion could only get worse. that development work is going other areas as well. since it provides buses free of signed recently, the minister said applied. The only solution is that more and on in full swing all over and many “Europeans have begun taking charge to government schools, the deals were just a tip of the “We selected 1,017 of them and more people use public transport roads are still under construction, advantage of these services but said the expert. If all schools are iceberg. will take in the remaining appli- wherever possible and ministries, he said. “I am supposed to report Arabs and Asians still prefer to provided buses and the charges are “We are going to ink more cants in the next batches,” said Al private and state companies and for work early in the morning but drive their own cars despite the nominal, parents would not drive such deals and the bigger ones Ayadi. schools change their work timings. I actually go to office at 10am. By chaotic roads and parking woes.” children to school in their private in the near future. Our aim is THE PENINSULA “The problem is that almost this time the roads are free, if Taking a cue from Europeans, cars. THE PENINSULA Gaza war damage Saudi arrests IS militants behead 88 for terror second US reporter attack plots RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has WASHINGTON: The Islamic Shirley appealed on August 27 in detained 88 people, more than State (IS) released a video pur- a videotaped message to IS’s self- half of them Saudis, on suspicion porting to show the beheading proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr Al of plotting “terrorist” attacks at of a second American hostage Baghdadi, for her son’s release. home and abroad, the interior Steven Sotloff, a monitor- In the video it released last ministry said yesterday. ing service said yesterday, as month, IS said Foley’s death was A ministry statement carried the militant group raised the in retaliation for US air strikes by the official Saudi Press Agency stakes in its confrontation with on its fighters in Iraq. said the ministry had been fol- Washington over US air strikes The United States resumed air lowing a number of suspects in on its fighters in Iraq. strikes in Iraq in August for the view of what it called the spread A masked figure in the video first time since the end of the US of “strife and sick ideas” that also issued a threat against a occupation in 2011. lured members of the community British hostage, a man the group The raids followed major gains to “places of strife”. named as David Haines, and by IS, which has declared an Some of the suspects had links warned governments to back Islamic Caliphate in areas it con- to the Islamic State group oper- off “this evil alliance of America trols in Syria and Iraq. ating in Syria and Iraq, to the against the Islamic State”, the In Washington, the White Nusra Front group in Syria or to SITE monitoring service said. House said it could not immedi- the Al Qaeda branch in Yemen, The purported executioner ately confirm that IS had released Ministry spokesman Major appeared to be the same British- a video of Sotloff’s beheading. State General Mansour Turki said after accented man who appeared in Dept spokeswoman Jen Psaki said a news conference. Palestinian farmers clean up their land which was damaged by Israeli army vehicles during the latest war, in an August 19 video showing the the US intelligence services would “They showed their support the village of Khuzaa, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday. See also page 6 killing of American journalist “work as quickly as possible to to the organisations in Syria and James Foley, and it showed a determine its authenticity.” Iraq and also in Yemen, and they similar desert setting. In both “If the video is genuine we are wanted to get involved in their videos, the captives wore orange sickened by this brutal act tak- activities. jumpsuits. ing the life of another innocent REUTERS “I’m back, Obama, and I’m back American citizen. Our hearts go Centre to monitor sea weather because of your arrogant foreign out to the Sotloff family.” policy towards the Islamic State, A source familiar with the mat- TODAY’S EDITION OF DOHA: Qatar is all set to Organization (WMO). key decision-making, said Al because of your insistence on ter said that while US officials launch today a Gulf Marine As part of the project, five Hammadi. continuing your bombings and ... have yet to formally confirm the THE PENINSULA Centre to provide meteorology floating platform-like devices will He said the floating devices on Mosul Dam, despite our seri- validity of the video, it appeared INCLUDES A 4-Page services for the sea around its be put in the Qatari waters in the will be moved from where they ous warnings,” the man said. “So to authentic. SUPPLEMENT ON territory and the rest of the Gulf at five select locations. are stored to the meteorology just as your missiles continue to The United States is taking Gulf. The devices will help monitor centre in Abu Hamour. From strike our people, our knife will the Islamic State militants far A senior official from Qatar’s heat, air quality, humidity levels, there they will be taken to Doha continue to strike the necks of more seriously now than it did Meteorology Department, wind direction and speed and Port. your people.” six months ago, when Obama Nawaf Al Hammadi, told this waves and their height and speed From Doha Port, four Qatari In the video, Sotloff describes told the New Yorker magazine that newspaper that the weather as well as salinity of the sea water experts will be taking them in the himself a “paying the price” for they were the “JV team,” which monitoring and early warn- and other data related to climate sea for installation. The Qataris the US intervention in Iraq with is short for “junior varsity” and ing system will be launched change.